To miss the range of Easter eggs that used to be available...

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

and to think that they are one thing that certainly hasn't got smaller over time?

The 'standard' size of egg when I was a kid was smaller than the ones that are generally on offer here for £1. And the offers, and meeting what people want to buy has meant that the range seems to have shrunk a lot.

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I used to love the Yorkie ones in the cardboard lorry box.

I liked the old Kinder Surprise eggs. They tasted so much better.

I remember the Yorkie one!

Yes, I was at the supermarket this week and picked up eggs for my kids. There was maybe a choice of 3 or 4 branded eggs. I haven't seen a mug one for years!

I also remember the Dairy Box/Quality Street eggs being the big ones.

Gosh I remember so many of those eggs! I used to love the toffee and mallow eggs and the fresh minty eggs.
What I dont remember is a polo egg, don't fancy that one!
Thanks for that trip down memory lane OP wernt the boxes so much more fancy?
I remember my dad buying my mum a huge Dairy Milk egg once, it was tied up in a beautiful silk ribbon and us kids wernt allowed to touch it

I was thinking how huge the range has got. There were several varieties of mug eggs, bounty, rolo, double decker, kit Kat, roses, linder,, lion, etc.

An honour and a privilege Dr. Maxwell! Did Leon forget to buy you one?

Ooh tootie frooties- they were nice. I'm sure I've had the caramac ones too.

I mean I'd put money on there being more variety now than there was in the 80s or 90s. Consider the range of dairy free eggs available, for one. And the huge amount of other brands now available - the variety you see in the supermarkets is much greater than Cadbury or Mars brands.

I'm certain there is more choice now than then, despite the enjoyable trip down memory lane!

I yearn for the real olden days - when the chocolate egg came in half and inside the egg was a little tray of chocolates, milk tray, dairy box etc. None of this 'just chuck a bar of chocolate in the box'

My mother (80s) still has an egg she had from the war - it was cardboard with sweets inside...

It’s the fondant filled Easter Bunnies I miss.

We used to get mini eggs in a tube.

What I really miss is the way the chocolates used to be inside the egg. You had a smallish box, an egg wrapped in foil, none of this inpenetrable plastic packaging, and inside the egg was a selection of chocolates, loose, not in a plastic envelope.

Nowadays you have a huge box, a couple of chocolates in view in a small window below the egg, and when you open it, that's it. All the non-visible part of the box is empty, and there's nothing in the egg. Such a let down.

Oh wow, some of those bring me back!

I definitely had the Lion bar one with the lions head box. And we had the Smarties mug in our house for years.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Polomint egg or a Fruit Pastille egg before.

Smarties eggs with the spotty foil were the best!

We used to get mini eggs in a tube.

Were they the Suchard filled eggs? They were divine. My grandmother would give us those, I still think of them every Easter.

Although I do think it's telling, from looking at these again, how unnecessary the ridiculous plastic protectors are. I swear half their job is to make the box look massive.

@VivaLeBeaver
Oh yes the Yorkie ones !
And my brother telling me that I should give mine to him because they were only for men 🤣

I also remember a Caramac egg
Do they still make those?
They were heavenly.

It was definitely the boxes that were more interesting. Like the Yorker lorries or lion bar one. We got really excited with those plus you got at least 2 bars of confectionery and with sweets they were inside the egg.

Loved the smarties brown spotty box with the mug.. we had loads of those in our house

Nowadays it’s all either just mass duplication of the same box just with a different brand... or over the top fancy eggs that you don’t want to eat.

Milk tray, dairy box, roses, quality street, jelly tots, candy tots, tiger tots, tootie fruities, caramac, walnut whip, matchmakers,
All available in small sizes, whereas some, like quality street and roses only seem available as large now.

As well as several that are still available now like buttons, smarties, rolo, kitkat.

Maybe the range is larger now. I'm just feeling nostalgic. :)

And no, @ladymalfoy, he didn't. Bloody bollocking hell!

Yorkie*

@MayFayner I remember those Suchard eggs. Different foil wrappers for different centres!

@DrMadelineMaxwell well that’s fire trucking typical! I’ll send Markham over with my stash of Linder eggs.

I used to love the Caramac egg. We used to think that the Black Magic egg was so glamorous. The idea of the Polo mint egg seems a bit

I liked the small smarties egg heads.

We would have half an egg per day. Sometimes with a scoop of ice cream in for pudding.
Luckily, the 'standard' size egg that we would be given is smaller than the 'standard ' size you buy on offer today.